Wendy Woodward had never worked in a high-tech environment when she accepted a position managing academic technology at Northwestern University. But she believed her corporate experience equipped her with the project planning, leadership and business process skills she needed to do the job. "I'm not the most technical person in the room, but I understand […]

Bills that could impact how students exercise free speech at public higher ed institutions—and that could also dictate how administrators discipline "disruptive" behavior—are winning various levels of support in statehouses across the country. Introduced partly in response to recent protests against controversial speakers on campuses across the U.S., the proposals follow two models: the Campus Free Expression […]

Freshman enrollment at the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri has fallen by more than 35 percent since the institution's well-publicized and racially driven student protests in November 2015, according to a July New York Times article. The institution acknowledges that the incidents are a major cause of the drop. Mizzou is temporarily shuttering […]

While executing an eight-building, $157 million construction and renovation project in 2014, officials at Del Mar College in Texas forgot one critical player: the tech expert. Information technology administrators weren't brought on board until just before the design was finalized. At that point, they had to scramble to integrate technology into a range of facilities—from […]